Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-05-18
SCIENTIFIC q

little, worthy Careful Consideration
To the Editor Of the Scientific Amer
lean:
Will you permit Us TO make known
to the public the facts w have learned
during the past eight years, concern
ing disorders Of the human kidneys
and the organs which diseased kid
neys so easily break down? You arr
conducting a scientific paper, and are
unpreiudiced except In favor of truth,
Ii Is needless to say, no medical jour
nal Of Code" standing would admit
these facts for very obvious reasons.
II II. WARNER & CO.,
Proprietors Of "Warner's safe Cure.'
That We may emphasize and clearly
explain the relation the kidneys sus'
tain TO the general health, and how
much Is dependant upon them, Wa
propose, metsphorically speaking. &c
take one from the human body, place
In the wash bowl before us. and exam
inc il for the public benefit.
You will imagine that We have be.
fore us a body shaped like a bean,
smooth and glistening, about four
inches In length, two in width, and
one in thickness. 1t ordinarily weig Is
in the adult male, about FIVE ounces,
but Is somewhat lighter In the female.
A small organ ? you say. But under.
stsnd, the body of the average size
man contains about ten quarts OF
blood, Of which every drop passes
thICuph these filters or sewers, H. they
may be called, many times a day, as
often as through the heart, making n
complete revol .tioD In three minutes.
From the blood they separate the
waste material, working away steadily
night and day, sleeping or waking,
t~ireless as the heart itself, and fully Of
a. much vital importance; removing
impurities from -ixty-fve gallon. Of
blood each HOur, or about forty-nine
barrels enrh day, or . l2j hogshtad- a
year! What IA wonder that the kid.
neys eau last any length of time under
tLIs p%rodIgious strain, treated aud
neglected "A, they ate"
We slice this delicate organ open
l%engthwise with uur knife. aud will
roughly describe It's interior.
We find il TO he Of "A reddish brown
color, soft and Easy torn; filled with
hundreds o! little tubes, short aud
thread-like, starting from the arteries,
ending in a little TUT about midway
from the outside opening into u cavity
Of considerable size, viii III j. called
the pelvis or, roughly speaking, u sac,
which Is for the purpose OF holding
the water To further undergo purifica-
ton before IL pas-es down from here
into the ureters, aud 50 on to the out
aide Of the body. These little tubes
are the filters which do their work au-
tomatically, and right here is where
the disease of the kidneys first begins.
Doing the vast amount of work
which they are Obliged to, from the
slightest irregulsrify in Our habits.
FROM cold, from high living. from
stimuleEts or u hou.and aud one
other causes which occur every day,
they become somewhat weakened in
their nerve force.
What IL the result, Congestion or
s,oppage of the current of blood in the
small blood vessels surrounding them,
which become blocked; these delicate
members are irritated; inflammation Is
set up, then pus Is formed which col
lects in the pelvis or sac; the tubes are
ut fret partially, and oon are totally,
unable 10 do their work. The pelvic
sac goes on distslending with ibis cor
ruption, pressing upon the blood ves-
sel-. All this time, remember. the
blood, which il entering the kidneys
to he filtered. II passing through this
terrible, disgusting pu-, for il cannot
take any other route!
stop aud think of 1t for a moment.
DO you realize the importance, nay
the vital Necessity, of having the KID.
neys IN order? Can you expect when
they are diseased or ~obstructed, no
matter how little, that you can have
pure blOcd aud escape disease? IL
would be just ~ reasonable Ia expect,
ia p~est.hUuse were set across Broad
way aud countless thousands were
compelled Ia 20 through IT. pestilenti.
al dOur-, and escape from c%ontagiOn
and disease, as foi ~ to expect the
blood 10 escape pollltion when con
stantaly running through diseased
kidney.
Now, what il the result? Why,
that the blood takes up aud deposits
this poison as it sweeps along into
every organ, into every inch of muscle,
tissue, flesh and bone, from your head
"a your feet. Aud whenever, from
hereditary influence or otherwise,
some part Of the body is weaker than
another, II countless train Of diseases il
established, such AZ consumption ia
weak lungs, dyspepsia, where there is
a delicate stomach; nervousness, in